Released Date:
1997-05-02
Languages:
English, Serbo-Croatian, Maori, Japanese
Countries:
New Zealand
Runtime:
92 min
Rated:
NC-17
IMDB Ratings:
6.5 (600 Reviews)
Director:
Gregor NicholasGregor Nicholas
Johanna Pigott
James Salter
Ivan is the fierce patriarch of a family of Croatian refugees in Auckland. Nina is his daughter, ready to live on her own, despite his angry objections. Eddie is the Maori she takes as her lover. Nina works at a restaurant where Eddie cooks. For a price, she agrees to marry a Chinese, another restaurant employee, so that he (and his Chinese wife) can establish permanent residency. The money gives her the independence she needs to leave her parents' house and move in with Eddie. Complications arise when Eddie realizes the depth of her father's fury and the strength of Nina's family ties.
Languages:
English
Countries:
New Zealand
Runtime:
85 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.3 (169 Reviews)
Director:
Tony HilesGenres:
Sci-FiTony Hiles
Peter Jackson
Fran Walsh
A thousand years ago, in England, the crazy monk Elmer wears a pair of wings and tries to fly from a high tower. He dies, and his soul is doomed to the eternity in hell for committing suicide. In the present days, in New Zeland, Elmer has the last chance to prove that men can fly and save his soul: his spirit enters in the brain of a very intelligent inventor, Jack Brown, and forces him to try to fly. Jack uses his last creation, an amplifier in a tape record, to succeed in the journey, but his invention is strongly desired by his former boss and his lover, who want to sell it to a Chinese investor. Jack's girlfriend helps him to accomplish his intent.
Released Date:
2001-10-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
New Zealand
Runtime:
92 min
IMDB Ratings:
(1431 Reviews)
Director:
Christine JeffsKirsty Gunn (novel)
Christine Jeffs
Janey is on vacation with her brother, Jim, mother, Kate, and father Ed, at their beach house on the Mahurangi Peninsual in New Zealand. Ed and Kate, who are on the verge of divorce, sit around in the back yard all day drinking whiskey and Janey and Jim are left to their own devices. Cady, a local boatee who is having an affair with Kate, catches Janey's pubescent eye. In response to his wife's drinking problem and recurring infidelity, Ed turns to alcohol, ignoring his children almost as much as his wife, which eventually leads to a character's fate.
Released Date:
2002-08-09
Languages:
English, German, Spanish, Russian, Czech
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
124 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.8 (134070 Reviews)
Director:
Rob CohenXander Cage is your standard adrenaline junkie with no fear and a lousy attitude. When the US Government "recruits" him to go on a mission, he's not exactly thrilled. His mission: to gather information on an organization that may just be planning the destruction of the world, led by the nihilistic Yorgi.
Released Date:
2005-12-02
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
93 min
Rated:
PG-13
IMDB Ratings:
5.5 (106431 Reviews)
Director:
Karyn KusamaPhil Hay
Matt Manfredi
Peter Chung (characters)
400 years in the future, set in the year 2415, Aeon Flux is a mysterious assassin. Four centuries after a virus nearly annihilated the human race, leaving only five million survivors in a utopian city called Bregna. Aeon is struggling to destroy the Goodchild regime led by its namesake, Trevor Goodchild, the ruler of Bregna and a descendant of the man who found a cure for the deadly virus. As instructed by the Handler, Aeon is assigned to assassinate Goodchild, but there are deeper secrets to be discovered, and conspiracies to be foiled.
Released Date:
2004-04-16
Languages:
English
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
111 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (2420 Reviews)
Director:
David GriecoIn 1984, in Kiev, the communist teacher Andrej Romanovic Evilenko is dismissed from his position after a pedophilic act against a student. On 15 May 1984, the pedophile Evilenko begins to rape children, and then slashing the victims in pieces and eating them. The magistrate family man Vadim Timurouvic Lesiev is assigned to catch the serial killer and almost eight years later he finally captures the monster that killed fifty-five persons, most of them children and young women. On 22 May 1992, Evilenko goes to the court and on 14 February 1994 he is finally executed.
Released Date:
2014-09-26
Languages:
English, Russian, Spanish
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
132 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (193028 Reviews)
Director:
Antoine FuquaRichard Wenk
Michael Sloan (television series)
Richard Lindheim (television series)
In The Equalizer, Denzel Washington plays McCall, a man who believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when McCall meets Teri (Chloè Grace Moretz), a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can't stand idly by - he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.
Released Date:
2007-05-31
Languages:
English, German
Countries:
Australia
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.7 (3598 Reviews)
Director:
Richard RoxburghNick Drake
Raimond Gaita (memoir)
Raimond Gaita (1946 - ) comes of age in Frogmore, Victoria in the early 1960s. His parents are immigrants: his Romanian father farms; his German mother, Christina, estranged from Romulus, is in Melbourne. Romulus is near despair when she takes up with the brother of his best friend, who suggests he send for a new wife from back home. For Rai, poverty, bruises, and the mysterious ways of adults compete with his longing for a stable home and his own incipient puberty. Love and madness lie in the same bed. As an old woman tells Rai, "Sometimes what you reckon and what you get ain't the same thing."
Released Date:
2010-08-11
Languages:
English
Countries:
France, Australia, Germany, Italy
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.6 (3561 Reviews)
Director:
Julie BertuccelliJudy Pascoe (novel)
Julie Bertuccelli
Elizabeth J. Mars (first screenplay)
The O'Neills lived happily in their house in the Australian countryside. That was until one day fate struck blindly, taking the life of Peter, the father, leaving his grief-stricken wife Dawn alone with their four children. Among them, eight-year-old Simone denies this reality. She is persuaded that her father still lives in the giant fig tree growing near their house and speaks to her through its leaves. But the tree becomes more and more invasive and threatens the house. It must be felled. Of course, Simone won't allow...
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